On Saturday 06 of September 2014 14:09:23 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> > The question is whether k9copy without MEncoder is useful? We could move> > mencoder to Recommends or set variant dependency "mencoder |> > libav-tools". But the question is whether it will be useful without> > rewrite k9copy to able use avconv instead of mencoder?>> Basically mencoder is no longer supported in Debian, but it seems it is> still available under Ubuntu (at least until Trusty). I think an easy> solution is to add mencoder to the list of dependency packages that we> maintain and leave everything else as is at the moment. Cheers> Michele>
Mencoder is part of mplayer1. I'm not sure that we want to maintain mplayer1.
Therefore, it seems to me to be more appropriate to replace mencoder by
libav-tools (avconv). For now I have not examined how difficult task it is.
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Slavek